Research Enterprise Newsletter - May 2007: Grants & Contracts News
Members of Congress Support NIH Budget Increase
A total of 186 members of the House of Representatives signed an April 27 letter to House Appropriations Chair David Obey (D-Wis.) and Ranking Member Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) supporting a 6.7 percent increase in each of the next 3 years for the NIH. The letter, organized by Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Dave Reichert (R-Wash.), Chris Shays (R-Conn.), Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Janice Schakowsky (D-Ill.), and Chris Smith (R-N.J.), notes that since FY 2003, the NIH budget has failed to keep pace with biomedical inflation. = Additional reading.
